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Car died, now it won't start

Hey guys, I was driving home last night and I started to hear what I thought was a knocking noise from my engine (kinda hard to hear over my exhaust) and then about 10 seconds later my engine stalled out. I dropped the clutch out to try to restart it, but then everything just shut off completely. No power anywhere.
So I had it towed home yesterday, and my dad was convinced that it was an electrical issue, but I charged the battery up completely, and it still won't crank. Just makes a slow whining noise and then everything dims out for second and it stops. Any ideas? So far i'm thinking fuel pump or starter(other than a seized engine), but i don't see why it woudln't crank if it was the fuel pump, and i don't see why it would've shut off on my if the starter was bad.

I should probably mention(this is why i'm afraid it's an engine problem) the oil pressure dropped after I did a WOT pull up through 3rd gear. I had just changed the oil and I wanted to make sure it was doing ok, so I drove it around for about 15 minutes and then pushed it on the way home. It was fine, i drove it for about a mile or two with 40-50 oil pressure with the clutch engaged and ~20 without, but then it died half a mile from home. Hence, my fear that I locked something up in the engine, because I don't understand the drop in oil pressure(unless my gauge is bad, didn't install in myself, came with the car when I bought it a couple months ago).

Yeah, I can hear the fuel pump.
We tried jumping it with AAA, did the same thing it's doing after I charge the battery up.
Yeah that's why I was thinking it might be the alternator, but it like won't even try to crank.

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